Lama Ali is a 20-year-old fashion design student from Virginia.

She had three final assignments due on the same day for her fashion drawing class and decided to include a message in sign language to her professor in one of her paintings.

Ali told BuzzFeed News that she incorporated the message into her painting because she was "high key salty about all the work that was piled upon us."

Lama Ali

She said she was working in the library when the idea dawned upon her.

"After being on maximum overdrive for that long, the only thing that kept repeating in my head was ‘you got me fucked up’,” she said. "And then I decided to write it in sign language so it would be less detectible."

Ali then posted her painting on Twitter as a joke expecting to “receive a few little giggles here and there," but did not expect to go viral. It has since been retweeted more than 47,000 times.